Titanic clashes between pro football’s biggest names under center highlight prime offerings set for this season’s “Sunday Night Football” on NBC, officials said Wednesday.
While the opponents each NFL team will face in 2024 has been known since the end of the last regular season, dates for almost all of those contests were not announced until Wednesday night.
NBC’s Sunday prime time lineup kicks off on Sept. 8 when the Los Angeles Rams’ Matthew Stafford and Detroit Lions’ Jared Goff square off in a matchup of quarterbacks who were traded for each in other in a deal in 2021 that’s benefitted both sides.
The following Sunday night, Sept. 15, features the Chicago Bears’ No. 1 draft pick Caleb Williams taking on the Houston Texas and last season’s rookie of the year, quarterback C.J. Stroud.
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who missed nearly all of 2023 with a Week 1 injury, is set to make his first “Sunday Night Football” appearance in green when his team visits the Pittsburgh Steelers on Oct. 20.
Gang Green will make another “SNF” showing on Nov. 17 against the Indianapolis Colts.
Even before the formal announcement of the NFL’s full roster of games and dates was rolled out, bits and pieces of the 2024 schedule were strategically leaked out in recent days.
Some of the matchups previously known include:
- The regular season’s first game between the world champion Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 5 in a Thursday night game televised by NBC. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has led his squad to three Super Bowl titles while Ravens signal-caller Lamar Jackson has two MVP awards on his mantle.
- The NFLs first game in Brazil a day later when the Philadelphia Eagles meet the Green Bay Packers in São Paulo.
- The Jets playing “Monday Night Football” on opening weekend against the NFC-champion San Francisco 49ers. Rogers suffered a season-ending ACL injury in his team’s 2023 opener, also on “MNF.” He was sacked by Buffalo Bills’ Leonard Floyd, who coincidentally has left Buffalo to join San Francisco.
The 2024-25 season culminates on Feb. 9 in at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
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